1936.10.16: What We Saw at the Opera; verso: Nine Figure Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.10.16

People

William Rimmer, American (Liverpool, England 1816 - 1879 S. Milford, MA)

Title

What We Saw at the Opera; verso: Nine Figure Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1867 - 1869

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306838

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

14.3 x 21.6 cm (5 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: WR
• inscription: lower edge, graphite: What we saw at the opera
• inscription: l.r., graphite: Caricature
• inscription: verso, graphite: [Each head study labeled:] 26. / Platform / [ ] /28. / Two friends / shoulder [ ] / 28. / longwood [ ] / 5/25 [ ] / down front
• inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite, signed: From drawing book. / CHR

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

From the artist to his daughter Caroline Hunt Rimmer, at his death, 1879; to her niece Edith Rimmer Durham Simonds, 1918; purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.10.16

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jeffrey Weidman, "William Rimmer: Critical Catalogue Raisonné" (Thesis, Indiana University, 1981), Indiana University, no. 127, pp. 905-906, illus. 200; verso: no. 128, pp. 906-907, illus. 201

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